'Plainly illegal': Georgia Bureau of Investigations probing DA in Rayshard Brooks case over use of subpoenas
By: Garrett Rolfe (Washington Examiner)
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The Georgia Bureau of Investigations is broadening its investigation of Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard following his use of a subpoena to obtain police records in the Rayshard Brooks case.
Brooks, a black man, was shot and killed on June 12 by Garrett Rolfe, a white Atlanta police officer, after Brooks stole an officer's Taser and pointed it at police as he ran away during an arrest.
Just days after the incident, Howard charged Rolfe with nearly a dozen felonies, including murder. The GBI said at the time that it was " not consulted" on the charges that the DA filed.
Howard issued a subpoena to the police department on June 13 regarding Rolfe's "use of force incident," according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
A city official told the newspaper that the subpoena was later withdrawn before a city official was to appear before the grand jury. In Fulton County at the time the subpoena was issued, the next grand jury was not set to convene until July.
A person who misuses a subpoena could be found in contempt of court, ordered to spend up to 20 days in jail, and face a $300 fine, the AJCreported.
Separately, state courts have ruled that due to the coronavirus pandemic, courts cannot summon citizens to sit on grand juries until at least Aug. 11.
"There isn't a grand jury physically meeting now, and a grand jury did not, in fact, issue that subpoena," Bruce Harvey, a criminal defense attorney in the city said of Howard. "That subpoena is plainly illegal."
Howard's office acknowledged in a statement issued Friday that "there has been much confusion about whether my office legally issued a grand jury subpoena on June 13" and said there would be a grand jury regarding public corruption cases "which would be authorized to affirm the issuance of a subpoena."
The GBI also has several other pending investigations into Howard's conduct as district attorney.
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I think, at this point, it's fair to say that we have State DA's that never should have been DA's, that we have mayors who never should have been mayors and governors who never should have been governors. Who is responsible for all of this?
Trump and his supporters are off topic
Unfortunately voters that live there are. Of course most of them will never admit they were ever wrong; or even that there is a problem.
It's getting hard for them to ignore it. Their communities are in flames.
The flames were out weeks ago...but I imagine that old horse has a few seeds left in it.
Tell us again how relevant 1619 is to contemporary America..
Again? I imagine that since most of our history was written by educated white men as the winners,
that movements like suffrage, feminism and 1619 won't seem relevant to most contemporary white men.
Most are neither in need of a different perspective or appreciate it. They just don't care.
Like flat earthers and creationists, they just don't care for any dissent from what they believe.
Do you have any documentation that the land you live was called The United States of America in 1619?
If not, the United States of America had nothing to do with what happened on that land in 1619.
Maybe the 1619thers need to take their concerns to...maybe...Great Britain...or Spain...or France...or to the Dutch. Those were the countries that inhabited portions of this land then. Those are the white guys you need to talk to.
Problem is, most liberals know that this countries would tell them to go screw themselves if they tried to take it to them.
Much easier to roll liberal whites here. Too easy to scam.
Nobody else falls for it.
You go from dismissing the destruction of neighborhoods mere weeks ago as old news and without missing a beat try and justify the relevance of fixating on colonial times. you crack me up. .
Fixating?
Step out of your act Sean.
In my life time not much has changed. It's just repeated. Delbert Africa, Rodney King, over and over.
If 1619 scares you, don't look at it or read it.
I don't.
WRONG
Cops were just beaten in NYC and Portland is in its 40th odd day/night of violence. Keep telling people there's no violence!
RIGHT
Sorry Vic, I get my news from Fox local Dallas.
Haven't seen any NYC officers beaten recently.
According to you Portland is in violence for 40 days? Peaceful protest continue on day 49 are getting smaller and smaller.
Of course DHS has been accused of violence and acting as an occupying army under the EO supposedly designed to protect
national monuments.
My advice would be to stay home on your own coast and worry about Boston.
Excellent advice and doubtful 1619 would be an issue if the Founding Fathers nipped slavery in the bud in 1776,
but they did not, making it everyone's problem, even so long after a civil war over the same subject.
And to think you once told me that you read all the stories on NT's front page. You see, I have a story there on the NYPD officers who were recently assaulted and the tremendous increase in crime in NYC. Yet you only watch local news?
According to you Portland is in violence for 40 days? Peaceful protest continue on day 49 are getting smaller and smaller.
Here, READ:
My advice would be to stay home on your own coast and worry about Boston.
My advice would be to stay home and become better informed.
Well since you are a self moderated group, I have little need to moderate the "truth" you claim to spread.
If the news isn't important enough for Fox News Dallas, it just must not be that important. At least not in Texas.
Hmmm, let's see.
COVID stories all effing day, COVID records, COVID in schools, masks. COVID ruining TX HS football, the coming college season will be ruined. etc, etc. Idiot "Karens" making scenes over masks? Non Stop.
NYC Cop sucker punched before a protest march, nada, that I saw.
Sorry.
Another pointless conversation?
But that is not the point of the 1619 project. Their "logic" is the United States of America is responsible for slavery since 1619.
I'm saying that if blacks want reparations, or hold someone responsible, they should go to the countries I listed above. They are responsible for the origins of slavery in this country.
A Jacksonville cop was beaten to an inch of his live a couple of days ago. A backup cop shot him after the perp tried to attack him, but unfortunately, it was not a mortal hit.
Even in Jacksonville
As has always been the case since the beginning of organized governments.
Take it further. There are men and women who should never have been Senators, Congressmen, Cabinet members or Presidents.
Shit happens.
LMAO. It's all relevant as the UC Berkeley professors used to say. They have produced a lot of scum haven't they?
Shit happens.
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I would not presume to know, I went to University on the east coast.
Again, I would not know but that sentiment is consistent for your ideology.
Nah, we were having an adult discussion of your topic and I was responding to your comments, the last of which is